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What are you actually trying to solve for? What does cultural cohesion look like? In my experience, most companies are mismanaged and no amount of culture buil
by dirtbag__dad 4y ago
What are you actually trying to solve for? What does cultural cohesion look like?
In my experience, most companies are mismanaged and no amount of culture building addresses those issues.
If you want people to bond in a positive way, make work easier for them by ensuring they have clear goals, attainable timelines, and a path for career growth.
Otherwise cultural cohesion is built on people complaining about the company.
Maybe that’s actually figured out and your company is not a minefield of bs, in which case you are very lucky!
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Something one of my employers did was start our weekly executive team meetings with everyone saying three words to describe how they’re feeling and why for each. We’d get things like “excited”, “stressed”, “annoyed” with an honest description why … which was a fantastic barometer of the company’s emotions for the week + a window into how everyone thinks and wants to be treated.
In our weekly all hands we’d start with everyone saying something they were anxious about and something they were excited about. Folks shared very personal stuff. It was sometimes hard to listen to people over share, but I knew more about people I hadn’t met in person in 6 months than i did folks I had worked with for several years.
People loved the culture there, and I did too. But there was still churn from mismanagement.